BUFFETT LUNCH HAS HEFTY PRICE: $3.3M
There are no free lunches — and that goes double when Warren Buffett is at the table.
An anonymous bidder paid more than $3.3 million Friday for a private meal and meaty conversation with the venerable billionaire investor and philanthropist.
When the bidding ended in the weeklong eBay auction Friday, the winning offer was a whopping $3,300,100.
That’s a lot of dough — but it actually falls short of the record sum paid during the 18 years that Buffett has participated in the annual auction for a good cause.
In both 2012 and 2016, the top bid was $3,456,789 — the record as the most expensive charity items ever sold on eBay.
The money raised at auction benefits Glide, a San Francisco-based charity that provides meals, health care, job training, rehabilitation and housing support to the poor and homeless. Buffett has raised more than $26 million for Glide through nearly two decades of auctions,
Buffett, 87, learned of the organization and its good works from his first wife, Susie, a Glide volunteer.
The auction winner gets to bring seven friends to a lunch with Buffett at Smith & Wollensky steakhouse in New York.
As they tuck into the carnivore palace’s dishes, diners can ask Buffett about any topic they like — except one: what’s his next investment.